story: (SPOILER ALERT!!!)

Maximum "Max" Ride is a title character and the primary protagonist of the series. She is a 14 year-old (15 in Fang, Angel, and Nevermore) avian-human hybrid and the leader of the Flock. She has brown hair that was originally brownish red but became sun bleached, peachy skin and brown eyes, but is described differently in the manga, where she has completely blonde hair. Some fans have hypothesized that the change in Max's hair color might be because Angel and Gazzy already have blonde hair, yet only Nudge has brown hair[citation needed] . However, it is mentioned throughout the series that her hair changes color according to season. Max is 5'8" and weighs 98 pounds, as described in The Final Warning. She has a 13 foot wingspan and is half Hispanic as described in Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports. Her wings are tan and white, with brown speckles. Max's powers are to fly up to 200 to 300 mph, she is the strongest of the flock, develop gills at the end of MAX. In MAX, Max has an affair with Fang in the desert after talking to him about Nudge wanting to cut her wings off. Later, the Flock meets Dylan, who, according to Dr. Gunther-Hagen, is Max's "perfect other half". Max begins to feel an attraction for Dylan. In Angel, she and Dylan, a clone of a dead boy, grow closer, confusing her feelings about Fang, who begins to grow closer to Maya, who is essentially Max's clone. Max is one of the two members of the Flock who found her parents; Iggy is the other. However, she is the only one to like her parents, Iggy leaving his after only a week or so (they wanted to put him in a freak sideshow). She is stunned when she learned that Jeb Batchelder (a "white coat" who helped them escape from the school and then raised them) was her father. Dr. Valencia Martinez is her biological mother. Max trusts Dr. Martinez completely, but remains wary of Jeb. She is also close to her half-sister, Dr. Martinez' daughter Ella, who Max first meets when trying to save her from some bullies. Max dislikes Ari (Her half-brother and Jeb's son), with whom she is constantly fighting, until he joins her "mini-flock" that was created in Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports for a short time after rescuing them from the School. A short while after Ari is rescued from the School, he expires (a "white coat" term for death), which deeply upsets Max. After Ari's death, the two mini-flocks created by Max and Fang rejoin. -Wikipedia